Yes, I certainly support what's proposed here, in principle. As I said earlier, I don't believe it's strong enough on some of the sentences. But I do think that with the whole notion of how sex crimes against children are exploding—and I think the police officer has told us how it's exploding in the numbers—clearly we have to do something on stopping that.
We know that counselling treatment may help some of them. We also know that as long as they're out there, too many of them reoffend. They're multiple offenders and reoffenders too often.
I have thought about this and I have talked to a number of people about whether there's another solution besides incarcerating these people. I do not think there is another solution, simply because, in my opinion, we don't have another solution, another way. And, yes, it's going to cost us some money, but in the long run it also will save some of those children who will be abused from ever having to go through counselling, treatment, drug costs for depression and suicide, and all those things.
So to me it is a very, very wise investment to increase the sentences for these kinds of crimes.